Junko Fukutome is a news assistant and researcher at The Wall Street Journal in Tokyo. Junko has reported from Tokyo and New York on U.S. and international politics and culture. She has interned at ...

Disclaimer: This article contains mentions of assault and murder. Reader discretion is advised. In November 1988, Junko Furuta was reported missing by her family. Someone had abducted her on her way ...

Memes are an important part of pop culture and arguably the most viral internet phenomenon. They shape our sense of humor, ...

What brought you to music? "I come from a family of musicians, so I wasn’t really brought to music, but rather music was brought to me. My dad is a piano technician whose family had a music store in ...

Google today honoured Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei her 80th birthday with a doodle. Junko Tabei was the first Japanese woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and also the first woman to climb ...